Manhattan dentist John Wolf was arrested on child porn and drug charges.

Manhattan dentist John Wolf is a meth addict — and it was the drugs talking when he allegedly crowed to an informant about bestiality and infecting sex partners with the HIV virus, Wolf's lawyer said Tuesday.

"People on meth aren't accurate historians, they exaggerate and tend to say outlandish things," lawyer Marc Agnifilo. "The key to this case is he has a drug problem."

But the complaint is filled with salacious and demented comments attributed to the dentist which are not charged crimes.

Wolf was secretly taped by the informant with whom he traded dental services for meth, and an undercover FBI agent posing as a pervert.

He was also taped at his W. 15th St. practice making wild comments about puncturing condoms and attending parties featuring sex with animals. (Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily News)

For example, Wolf allegedly admitted to the informant that he deliberately punctured condoms before sex, discussed underground sex parties featuring intercourse with animals, and expressed a desire to sexually abuse children.

Wolf appeared briefly in Brooklyn Federal Court for a detention hearing, but his legal team told Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom that they are still putting together a proposed bail package. He is being held in solitary confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center for his own protection.

Agnifilo also demanded the scheduling of a preliminary hearing for next week to confront the government's witnesses. Federal prosecutors will likely indict Wolf before that date to avoid the need for a hearing.